Raja Ampat coral reefs

Sitting in grey london surrounded by packing cases as we move
out of our dream home seemed to me to be a good time to remember
something uplifting. That would be Raja
Ampat and Si Datu Bua.

The Coral Triangle

I have already written about the amazing boat and so a brief
word on the diving. I could bore on about the seemingly endless
marine bio diversity but suffice it to say that you are in the
coral triangle and therefore right at the
centre of bio diversity. In simple English, you will find more
marine species in the coral reefs of Raja Ampat than anywhere else on the
planet. Period. Think about that for a moment and you begin to ask
yourself why bother to go elsewhere? The only real shortage are
shark but then that is a worldwide problem and we can thank our
Asian chums soup habits for that.

Thriving coral reefs

In short the Raja Ampat coral reefs are thriving forests of
endless species of marine life and perfect corals alive with
violently coloured nudibranchs, the waters thick with plankton
hence the visibility is far from perfect, but the pay off is the
literal blizzard of life creating the chain of life. Coral
bleaching is a meaningless phrase. There were two dive sites that
we had to force ourselves away from No Contest and The Five Kings,
both up there in our Top Ten ever dives, and thinking about that we
shall soon do a blog with our ten best, rather different from what
you will read elsewhere. They were staggering.

World's best diving in Raja Ampat

So in short, very short suffice it to say that the coral reefs
in Raja Ampat offer the worlds very best diving, whether North or
South, although given a choice we would probably head South.
Probably. Maybe. The only other region I would consider on a par
would be Komodo where the visibility is generally better and
consequently the marine life perhaps not quite so intense. Head to
either and you will have the diving of your life, I guarantee you.
Add Silolona or Si Datu Bua to the mix and
you very really have the holiday of a lifetime-simply
unbeatable.

Have you ever experienced the beautiful coral reefs in Raja
Ampat? Post a comment here to tell us about it? Or if you want to
go, contact
us today!

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